>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> writes:
Matthew> For extra credit, write a small routine that attempts to log into Matthew> postgres (or otherwise establish that postgres is up and doing) and Matthew> loops until it succeeds or it has reached a certain maximum number of Matthew> tries. Make this a function called start_precommand() and use the Matthew> run_rc_command facility so it only runs if the script is given some form Matthew> of start argument. Docco on rc script functionality is in rc.subr(8) Matthew> Also look at: Matthew> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/rc-scripts.html Yeah, I'd been staring at those for a few hours, even staring at the source code of rc.subr to sort this out. Thanks for the drop-in answer. I'll see if it does the job on the next reboot. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
